What are the symptoms of intermittent amnesia?

In real life, intermittent amnesia is a relatively common disease. Generally speaking, intermittent amnesia means that one chooses to forget important things, or only fragments of memory appear in the mind after suffering a heavy blow. The more obvious symptom of intermittent amnesia is amnesia, and one only has some memories of some vague things, but can remember them again after a period of recovery.

Symptoms of intermittent amnesia

Psychogenic amnesia

1. The patient loses his memory of past experiences. The amnesia is caused by psychological reasons.

2. The memory loss of patients is sometimes limited to the inability to remember events of a certain period of time, that is, they only remember the old things and forget the present.

3. Some patients may lose memory only about important things. This condition is called {episodic amnesia}.

4. Some patients lose their memory suddenly after suffering a painful blow, and their memory may be restored after a period of time.

Types of psychogenic amnesia

1. Partial amnesia: The patient completely loses memory of the events that occurred within a few hours before and after certain traumatic events.

2. Selective amnesia: A person selectively remembers some things that happened during a certain period of time and forgets some others.

3. Total amnesia: refers to a person completely forgetting his or her life background, including name, address, etc.

4. Continuous amnesia: refers to a person forgetting past experiences from a certain year or event before.

The obvious symptoms of amnesia patients include loss of memory for short-term things, difficulty in verbal expression, difficulty in understanding abstract things, being able to think and speak but not be able to do it, etc. Show obvious signs of forgetfulness, repetitive questions, or repeated requests, emotional agitation, or becoming uncooperative, etc. Therefore, caring for patients with amnesia is not only extremely expensive, but the long-term physical and mental exhaustion of the caregivers, and even causing depression, is a huge shock and burden to the family members, and also a major pressure on society.

What causes intermittent amnesia?

Many patients with intermittent amnesia will lose their memory of important things, but will remember many simple things. However, some patients will experience short-term fragmentary amnesia after suffering a sudden and severe blow, but they will recover the forgotten things after a period of time. In short, patients with intermittent amnesia are more likely to forget things.

How to determine whether a patient has intermittent amnesia? Many patients will experience amnesia symptoms after experiencing some painful time, which is what we often call partial amnesia. Some patients will selectively forget what happened during a certain period of time, which is called selective amnesia. This situation is not very serious and does not have a big impact on life. If some patients forget their names or even important life background information such as their addresses, this is a relatively serious intermittent amnesia, which will have a great impact on their life and work. Some patients may also forget all past experiences and events from a certain period of time, which can have a great impact on their lives.

If severe amnesia occurs, the patient needs psychological intervention treatment. When intermittent amnesia occurs, patients should learn to relax, calm down, relieve stress, and cooperate with doctors' treatment and care. Although the inducing factors of this disease are very complex and difficult to cure, as long as you have firm faith and correct treatment, it is still possible to be cured!